Author's e-books - WW1. Page - 1
Ever since she was small, Victoria Granger has been brought up to be the perfect daughter; she is demure, quiet, a perfect role model- That is, until she meets Lawrence Irving, a respectable police officer for the law. Sparks begin to fly, plots begin to twist, and soon the pressured young woman realises that she has an astounding secret she must keep from Lawrence at all costs- for Victoria is a suffragette, a campaigner for women's rights. Knowing that she can only keep her true colours to herself for so long, Victoria is caught between her beliefs, and the love of her life. And then the bomb explodes...
When my Grandfather Gough enlisted to fight and left his home outport of Elliston, Newfoundland in WW 1, he was a innocent boy.
By the end of WW 1 he was a shattered man, who had lost the main illusions of his life. Yet, he managed to write brave letters from the front; letters that reflected his life and times in such a way that I want what he said to be available for free, for us all - so we may all avoid war in all times forever.
My grandfather never glorified war to me, he warned me against it, told me to avoid fighting for belief; he regretted the killing he did, mourned those he'd shot & bayoneted, and was straight-ahead honest about his life-long opinion that to kill is wrong - period.
I write of his war in other books, in this one it's time to share with the world what he wrote in his period of learning. I ask to remember, as you read them, the time in which he lived, & to consider the falsehoods that were told him in order to have him fight. Those were terrible times of a war that could have been avoided.
Ever since she was small, Victoria Granger has been brought up to be the perfect daughter; she is demure, quiet, a perfect role model- That is, until she meets Lawrence Irving, a respectable police officer for the law. Sparks begin to fly, plots begin to twist, and soon the pressured young woman realises that she has an astounding secret she must keep from Lawrence at all costs- for Victoria is a suffragette, a campaigner for women's rights. Knowing that she can only keep her true colours to herself for so long, Victoria is caught between her beliefs, and the love of her life. And then the bomb explodes...
When my Grandfather Gough enlisted to fight and left his home outport of Elliston, Newfoundland in WW 1, he was a innocent boy.
By the end of WW 1 he was a shattered man, who had lost the main illusions of his life. Yet, he managed to write brave letters from the front; letters that reflected his life and times in such a way that I want what he said to be available for free, for us all - so we may all avoid war in all times forever.
My grandfather never glorified war to me, he warned me against it, told me to avoid fighting for belief; he regretted the killing he did, mourned those he'd shot & bayoneted, and was straight-ahead honest about his life-long opinion that to kill is wrong - period.
I write of his war in other books, in this one it's time to share with the world what he wrote in his period of learning. I ask to remember, as you read them, the time in which he lived, & to consider the falsehoods that were told him in order to have him fight. Those were terrible times of a war that could have been avoided.